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Illustration of "The Lamb" from "Songs of Innocence" by William Blake, 1879. poem; poetry
A Study of Poetry
4:043 Dickinson, Emily: A Life of Letters, This is my letter to the world/That never wrote to me; I'll tell you how the Sun Rose/A Ribbon at a time; Hope is the thing with feathers/That perches in the soul
Famous Poets and Poetic Form
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) only confirmed photograph of Emily Dickinson. 1978 scan of a Daguerreotype. ca. 1847; in the Amherst College Archives. American poet. See Notes:
Poetry: First Lines
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poem. A poet in a Heian period kimono writes Japanese poetry during the Kamo Kyokusui No En Ancient Festival at Jonan-gu shrine on April 29, 2013 in Kyoto, Japan. Festival of Kyokusui-no Utage orignated in 1,182, party Heian era (794-1192).
World Poetry Day
A ginger cat sleeps in his soft cozy bed on a floor carpet, soft focus
Lay, Lie, Lied, Lain: When Do We Use Which?
Happy, smiling, flying pig
7 Everyday English Idioms and Where They Come From
Sergeant Stubby or also known as Mascot Stubby. Unofficial mascot dog of the 102nd Infantry Regiment of the United States with the 26th (Yankee) Division in World War I. War dog. Possibly a Boston terrier - also sometimes described as a Boston bull terrier
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King Cobra snake in Malaysia. (reptile)
9 of the World’s Deadliest Snakes
Fish. Lionfish. Lion-fish. Turkey fish. Fire-fish. Red lionfish. Pterois volitans. Venomous fin spines. Coral reefs. Underwater. Ocean. Red lionfish swims by seaweed.
10 of the World’s Most Dangerous Fish
African Americans demonstrating for voting rights in front of the White House as police and others watch, March 12, 1965. One sign reads, "We demand the right to vote everywhere." Voting Rights Act, civil rights.
Timeline of the American Civil Rights Movement
Hemp (Cannabis sativa).
9 Mind-Altering Plants
illustration of the walking titanosaurus, Patagotitan mayorum
Titanosaurs: 8 of the World's Biggest Dinosaurs
Two chicks near an egg with a white background (poultry, chick, chickens, birds).
What Do Eggs Have to Do with Easter?
Lusitania sinking, illustration from The War of the Nations (New York), December 31, 1919. World War I, WWI. This image is one of three on the page. (See source file for the other two.)
7 of the World’s Deadliest Shipwrecks

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Also Known As Derek Alton Walcott
Born January 23, 1930 • Castries • Saint Lucia
Died March 17, 2017 (aged 87) • Saint Lucia
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (1992)
Notable Works “Dream on Monkey Mountain” • “In a Green Night: Poems 1948–1960” • “Midsummer” • “Pantomime” • “Sea Grapes” • “Selected Poems” • “The Castaway” • “The Fortunate Traveler” • “The Gulf” • “The Star-Apple Kingdom” • “Ti-Jean and His Brothers”

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T.S. Eliot, 1955
T.S. Eliot
American-English poet, playwright, and literary critic
William Butler Yeats, c. 1915.
William Butler Yeats
Irish author and poet
Luigi Pirandello
Luigi Pirandello
Italian author
Wole Soyinka, 2015
Wole Soyinka
Nigerian author
Gerhart Hauptmann
Gerhart Hauptmann
German writer
Harold Pinter
British dramatist
Bjørnstjerne Martinius Bjørnson.
Bjørnstjerne Martinius Bjørnson
Norwegian author
Maurice Maeterlinck, c. 1890.
Maurice Maeterlinck
Belgian author
François Mauriac
François Mauriac
French author
Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore
Bengali poet
Quasimodo
Salvatore Quasimodo
Italian poet
Lagerkvist
Pär Lagerkvist
Swedish author
Nelly Sachs.
Nelly Sachs
German writer
Poet Seamus Heaney
Seamus Heaney
Irish poet
Eugene O'Neill
Eugene O’Neill
American dramatist
Samuel Beckett, 1965
Samuel Beckett
Irish author
Albert Camus
Albert Camus
French author
Jon Fosse
Jon Fosse
Norwegian author
Galsworthy, oil painting by Rudolf Sauter, 1923; in the University of Birmingham Library, England
John Galsworthy
British writer
Peter Handke
Peter Handke
Austrian writer

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Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) only confirmed photograph of Emily Dickinson. 1978 scan of a Daguerreotype. ca. 1847; in the Amherst College Archives. American poet. See Notes:
Poetry: First Lines
4:043 Dickinson, Emily: A Life of Letters, This is my letter to the world/That never wrote to me; I'll tell you how the Sun Rose/A Ribbon at a time; Hope is the thing with feathers/That perches in the soul
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Illustration of "The Lamb" from "Songs of Innocence" by William Blake, 1879. poem; poetry
A Study of Poetry